AWS Principal Consultant, Appvia
Dec, 2023 - Present
Leading a team of 5 DevOps Engineers in building out secure gateways (both public and private) for the UK government. Responsible for rearchitecting, coding, implementing a solution to replace virtual machines with cloud native services to increase reliabilty, decrease complexity, and save money.
Consultancy: Government
AWS Transit Gateway, IAM, Security Hub, Cloudwatch
Terraform
Gitlab Pipelines
Security Clearance
Director, Compurama
Sep, 2023 - Nov, 20232 months
Contract work with Appvia before switching to permanent.
Consultancy: DevOps
Security Clearance
Senior Infrastructure Specialist, Publicis Sapient
Dec, 2021 - Oct, 20231 year 10 months
Lead a Cloud Acceleration Program (CAP) which accelerates the development of secure and compliant cloud-based applications on Azure, AWS, & GCP. Its modular design, pre-built templates, DevOps pipelines, and built-in support for monitoring and logging enable faster and more reliable application development. Regularly mentored engineers and designed solutions fulfill customers' requirements.
Consultancy: financial services & banking
AWS, Azure, & GCP
Kubernetes
Machine Learning
Gitlab Pipelines
Principal Consultant, Contino
May, 2020 - Dec, 20211 year 7 months
As the SRE Lead for a team of engineers, provided secure solutions for a government agencies. Worked with stakeholders to gather requirements and manage delivery outcomes. As an individual contributor, wrote reusable IaC code (terraform) and DevOps pipelines to execute technical solutions
Consultancy: Government
AWS Sagemaker
Machine Learning
Security Clearance
Director, DaveOps Ltd
Apr, 2014 - May, 20206 years 1 month
Contracted as a consultant providing custom continuous integration, continuous delivery, IT automation, ecommerce, and AWS engineering.
Consultancy: DevOps
Cloud Native Technologist, Fujitsu UK
Jun, 2019 - Apr, 202010 months
As the DevOps Team Lead for a team of engineers, migrated legacy applications and databases from an on-premise datacenter to the Azure cloud.
Consultancy: Government
Azure
MS SQL
Legacy applications
Windows Servers
Senior DevOps Engineer, Equal Experts
Apr, 2017 - May, 20192 years 1 month
Focused on continuous improvement of systems using DevOps principles.
Projects:
INTERSECTION - NEW YORK
I stabilised the build and deployment of the client's fleet of IoT devices spread across New York City. Tools used included Ansible, Datadog, fpm, python, aws cli, etc.
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE - GERMANY
As the DevOps Lead on a DevOps transformation project, I setup a continuous delivery system to deploy containerised applications on kubernetes clusters in Azure.
THREE - READING
This was a fun project. Within 2 months, I setup the frontend and backed in AWS from scratch for a mobile app loyalty program. I used all cloud native tools (AWS cloud build, AWS Cloudformation, AWs ElasticBeanstalk, etc) to accelerate the development build and deploy pipelines.
HMRC - CANARY WHARF/MANCHESTER
I was a member of twelve person team responsible for the running of the tax platform consisting of over 800 microservices.
Consultancy: Government, Communications, and Healthcare
Ansible
Terraform, Cloudformation
AWS, Azure
IOT
docker, microservices
python
Platform Lead, Wickes
Jun, 2016 - Mar, 20179 months
Designed and implemented the company's greenfield migration to the AWS cloud from parent company's on-prem infrastructure. One of the outcomes was a stable delivery pipeline for building and deploying AWS machine images for an integration middleware product (WSO2 EBS).
ecommerce
AWS
Codepipeline
WSO2
EC2, AMI, Packer
DevOps/WebOps, Government Digital Service
Mar, 2016 - May, 20162 months
Wrote puppet code to manage the GOV.UK website
Puppet
github
Solutions Architect, Salmon
Sep, 2015 - Mar, 20166 months
Designed Hybris and Magento ecommerce solutions using DevOps best practices. Wrote ansible playbooks and Chef inspec code to comply with the automotive client's security requirements and audit trail.
Ansible
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
WebOps Engineer, Equal Experts
Apr, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 5 months
Wrote idempotent puppet modules and deployments as well as python and ruby code to maintain HMRC's digital tax platform consisting of a hundred containerised microservices, elasticsearch, mongodb, etc.
Consultancy: Government
Puppet
docker, microservices
DevOps Engineer, Monitise
Apr, 2014 - Jul, 20143 months
Contracted to automate developer desktop builds with ansible.
Financial Services
Hashicorp Vagrant
Desktop automation
Devops Engineer/Senior Systems Administrator, MedicAnimal Ltd.
Mar, 2013 - Mar, 20141 year
As the lead systems engineer, migrated the company's web infrastructure to the cloud (Amazon Web Services) and consolidated 4 brands under a new e-commerce platform. We were able to reduce our release deployment time from 4-6 hours to as little as 20 minutes through automation and increased service visibility through central logging and custom metrics.
eCommerce
Hybris
AWS
CI/CD
Systems Administrator, Mind Candy
Jul, 2012 - Mar, 20138 months
As a DevOps engineer, was responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the systems infrastructure for the web-based kids' game Moshi Monsters.
Gaming
python
EC2
Engineering Support System Administrator, NetApp
Nov, 2011 - Jun, 20127 months
I worked in NetApp's Global Dynamic Lab with over 2,200 racks of equipment which operated on a 24x7 basis to support multiple timezones. Our phenomenal break/fix team was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing hardware, software, and infrastructure problems within 72 hours.
NetApp
Storage
Fibre, iSCSI, NFS
PXE
Systems Administrator, Bandwidth.com
May, 2011 - Nov, 20116 months
As the lone system administrator, managed approximately 100 production Linux servers, PostGreSQL databases, and monitoring system for a busy VOIP company providing the backbone for Skype and other providers.
Systems Administration
PostgreSQL
VOIP
Dell Servers
Computer Project Manager, NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)
May, 2005 - May, 20116 years
Highlights: Designed and relocated Center’s IT infrastructure (twice). Developed scripts to create and maintain a MediaWiki farm of approximately 90 wikis, with shibboleth authentication (NetID) enabled.
Systems Administration
PHP
Puppet
Shibboleth identity provider
MediaWiki
Systems Specialist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Apr, 2002 - Apr, 20053 years
System Administrator (Windows and Netware) for large server farm. Managed 600+ Windows desktops with Novell Zenworks.
Netware
Netware Directory Services (eDIR)
Windows servers
Citrix
IT Manager, AIC
Nov, 2000 - Mar, 20021 year 4 months
Highlight: Relocated entire networking, telefony, and computing infrastructure between buildings (over Christmas break).
Systems Administration
Networking and Telefony
Citrix
Lotus Notes
System Administrator, Duke University Medical Center
Sep, 1999 - Nov, 20001 year 2 months
Managed Netware servers and Windows NT desktops for the Medical Center Library. Zenworks expert.
Netware
Netware Directory Services (eDIR)
Unix
Zenworks Desktop automation
Computer Information Science, B.S., North Carolina Wesleyan College
Dec, 2007 - Dec, 2010
Biology, , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dec, 1985 - Dec, 1987
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
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RHCSA, Red Hat
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CNE-5, Novell
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MCP, Microsoft
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Puppet Professional 2014 Certification, Puppet Labs
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Puppet Professional 2015 Certification, Puppet Labs, Inc.
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Amazon Web Services
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Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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I worked together with Jon on a digital transformation project at Siemens Healthcare.
He led our efforts to implement a completely new deployment pipeline for Continuous Delivery. The suggested technologies were very state of the art: Docker and Kubernetes. The pipeline was implemented in Bash.
Jon led the implementation efforts very successfully. He also actively took part in workshops to advise us on moving our existing applications onto the new pipeline over time.
It was a pleasure to have Jon in the project! We hope he might join the project again in future.
Jon was the systems manager at NESCent for the 3+ years I was there, and I was very pleased with how he ran things. Jon was always very responsive, helpful, and available. He's also very good in a crisis, such as when the air conditioning fails on a hot North Carolina day,
I strongly recommend Jon. He would be a a great addition to any organizations.
Jon is a very competent and reliable person. He is sincere, very thorough, very knowledgeable, and has strong customer service skills. He is able to interpret technical information for all levels of staff within an organization, a communications skill that is very valuable and extremely useful. I know him to be very efficient and effective, and willing to go the extra mile to get the job done right and, more importantly, get the right job done.
